a brief truce between street rioters and security forces in ukraine's capital as the city waits for the results of crisis talks between the opposition and the government which is facing calls from the e.u. to hold an early election. un prepares the ground for syria's rival delegations to meet face to face on friday after a day one of the long awaited peace talks was marred by bitter exchanges. and a whistle blows water is edward snowden is reportedly planning to ask russia for personal protection after receiving death threats our top stories this hour.

this is r.t. international live from our studios today here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm and eight pm in kiev where a truce between protesters and police has just expired now the opposition and government are expected to announce very shortly the results of these talks he also getting involved with the head of the european parliament saying the country's president should call an early election. is there gauging the mood on the streets and following international reaction. well as the situation continues to unfold here in ukraine we have heard comment from the leaders in the european union first of the e.u. president jose manuel barroso said when he held a phone conversation with the ukrainian president viktor on a covert which mr barroso expressed his deep concern over what was happening here in ukraine and said that if the situation didn't sort itself out it wasn't sorted

out then the e.u. would be looking to take steps to try and help along. be looking to try and take steps of their own to try and solve the situation out here we also heard from martin shultz who's the head of the the european parliament he called for immediate elections here in ukraine misty on a covert use the opportunity to speak to both the east and the west saying this it really needs to stop the use of ukraine as a political football that ukraine is a independent nation it's a mature nation what we are going to see here is a special session of parliament that will be held next week no cheering that session of parliament we have are hearing that the issue of holding elections may be brought up maybe it will be discussed but what we also we could see. perhaps a repealing or a lessening of new laws that were brought in to deal with the the riots that we've

seen on the streets here and what you can see popsy going on just behind me is the building of a not the barricades we're seeing lots of people putting together. sacks filled with snow to to make to make that barricade as well as bringing whatever's left from the surrounding area in terms of road signs everything like advertising hoardings in order to build that now i went along earlier on to those barricades and talk to people who were there about what will happen if their demands for these rioters are met with. they think will come next war war we've just see vitaly klitschko one of the leaders of the opposition here of course the former world heavyweight boxing champion delivering a speech to the right is here on the front line the very front line of the barricades here just in front of the arts say this wall of fire that exists between the the riots and the riot police right now. he's been talking to two to his

supporters and giving them messages who what we have heard is that this after this twenty four hours of this ultimatum that was delivered to the the victory of a corporation ukrainian president. that there could be potentially more violence and we would expect to see that if those if their demands are met. well radical groups are getting the mentor in ukraine spurred by the antigovernment protests and the rioters appear to be well armed our online team has been taking a closer look at the gear they've been using opposition fighters can be seen with helmets and shields and also carry a wide array of weapons they even built a catapult a whole rocks over large distances and also a giant sling and on top of that they have new matic and normal lethal forearms wouldn't get all the specifics on the right equipment right now on r.t. dot com let's cross live to let your spirit has

a political scientists of the european century of. political analysis. we now know that the e.u. and the u.s. are threatening to take action over the ukrainian government in the way that they've been handling this crisis will let actually help resolve the matter without sort of external pressure on the ukrainian government. well the external president is already exhibited by several western politicians. politicians from united states we could already see that. man including their radical parts of the so-called euro my. had the support of diplomats politicians visiting and supporting those people there and for instance we have just learned about meeting between me people out of one of the most radical leaders of the so-called my down with mr geoffrey pyatt i mean i'm outside of united states. and we have also

learned to have financial support given by the united states by united states agencies through several radical groups so we can of course expect not only that present executive. president. is there as are all during. but we will probably. be witnessing. decreasing. increasing calls for financial and organizational suffered from western countries. because i thought i would have what i would also be the ovation just briefly you know there is also a poll and we saw a lot of e.u. members as you said earlier involved in the rallies last month why potent particularly. politicians there was of interest a potent. well there are two main reasons first one is of course

that. it's quite important from a point of view of. political parties political groups here are mostly it's quite important from the point of view of geopolitical strategy and geo political program of the extreme right and conservative. party lower than just these ridges and to russia and so it's a rather. pro ukrainian stance in this case and on the other hand you can of course see a lot of activists of n.g.o.s who are working with the west who are just getting all transmitting this. including the foreign financial support right and the grants given from the west to ukraine so poland is like a transmission belt unfortunately in this case what about the western media it's largely been laying the blame for the violence on the police. show riot police shooting at protesters who tore down the barricades so we

understand the washington post claims that police were aiming rifles why would they say you know we're using live rounds and not rubber bullets. well first and foremost we can see one very important factor of the so-called opposition there is led by neo nazi groups and militant groups now i mean it's dominated by those groups and i think that well if we would compare their riots in kiev with several riots in western european countries in the united states of. the polish thought to react to even more let's say brutally if they had such a situation in any of european capitals so i guess the in the case of backwater and in case of the ball is in ukraine the reaction was quite soft as we know when it

comes to the reaction of the police there of those people will be assault. yesterday where probably by some provoke caterers because of the police the brain of police doesn't use that kind of weapon because the communication. has been used in the case to thank you very much indeed mathias because key political scientists from the european center geo political analysis learned from warsaw thank you so much for your thoughts and your time. well far right groups as we've been discussing at the core of the protests in ukraine and they're making it clear that they do not favor peaceful resistance nationalist factions insisting that the government only listened to the quote language of force washington has responded to ukraine street violence but revoking the visas of several individuals and threatening sanctions as far as the u.s. is concerned only one side is to blame in all of this is all to easy to see coming out reports. the obama administration had upped its rhetoric against ukraine on

wednesday warning of possible sanctions that the government continues its crackdown on protesters there the state department spokesperson here in washington said all policy options are on the table but did not offer any more specifics now the u.s. meanwhile has revoked the visas of several ukrainian officials who are allegedly implicated in violence against peaceful protesters no members of the opposition however have their views was revoked by the united states this is something that did come under some scrutiny at the state department press conference when a journalist or raise the issue of a double standard the united states has already revoked visas of several people response or violence. several officials ukrainian officials several. so there is no position protesters nothing like this ukrainian official. now we also heard from the state department referencing two protesters that had

been shot saying that they had been shot by members of the police despite the fact that the investigation on the ground in kiev had not yet concluded president obama himself stayed silent on the recent developments for the department spokeswoman did call on the ukrainian government to abide by the protesters calls for the country to sign a treaty deal with the european union instead of turning towards russia the state department's top your of europe official victoria nuland has visited the country several times recently to argue the case vice president biden had also called the ukrainian president to express his deep concerns. well the ukrainian government is ready to consider its controversial new laws restricting rallies which triggered this week's protests we just heard from prime minister nicolas out of a he said that he will discuss possible changes with european experts and he's also promised to resign along with his cabinet if parliament decides that the government should be suspended meanwhile investigators are looking into two deaths during the

protest those victims were killed by gunfire on the streets and the actions of ukrainian police have come under criticism both home and abroad and i've been asking a former british police officer with experience of crowd control to analyze their tactics. the minute it starts becoming violent when it. meant may have no option and to react sometimes because once that situation does get out of control like that well then there's two primary and the first they could restore peace quickly in whatever way you can get the demonstrators moved away. and then primarily there the second part will be just to do so as safely as possible for the public first then to the offices second so i think in some ways when you get back to environment. so it's in many ways it's not surprising that they haven't reacted as diggers leaders they have i mean it's not very nice if you look very

good and indeed a lot of the police and get very artfully injured as well about human beings at the end of the day you know they are striving however well equipped they are well trained they are you know this is i mean it's a horrible analogy but it's sort of combat in the field face to face with some dangerous people many of whom are actually intent on causing them harm. we're closely following what's happening in kiev with peter oliver in the midst of the trouble there across in western ukraine nationalists have captured the regional administration buildings in two cities we're learning now well and get more details on ukraine's turmoil in r.t. dot com with minute by minute updates. the international media to for syria will hold separate meetings with the government and the opposition after the warring sides failed to find any common ground during the first day of the geneva two peace conference diplomats hope to

bring syria's bitter rivals together for the first face to face talks on friday you were sort of reports now from switzerland the prime minister i'm sorry to. can you trust. yourself if you live in new york i live in syria i have. to give the syrian. here in this forum the first day of the conference was expected to be spent listening to formal statements instead it was the scene of bitter exchanges as the syrian opposition pressed on with its calls for president assad to step down and i think that is the problem and i said i don't think the problem old any solution without. a change of power in damascus is something washington is pushing for as well bashar assad will not be part of that transition government but according to the u.n. secretary general of this is neither up to washington nor any other outside players

to decide the seriousness of themselves had the primary responsibility to end the conflict determine their party to their system and future and start repeating their country while democracy is willing to discuss anything from commenting territory partial cease fire anything that is except assad's resignation it seems the parties have a different understanding of the course of the talks indeed the only agree on the one thing that a political solution is the only way no one should. know one's trying to gloss this over that this is the beginning of a tough and complicated process more than forty countries and organizations and all suggest together how this must end that it has to have an inclusive syria it's goes through the statements were indeed emotional and they were mutual.

but what's most important is that all the parties involved want direct talks to start as as soon. the book was the first round of negotiations mediated by the u.n. arab league special envoy on syria is expected to last one week after nearly three years of extreme violence it isn't a surprise the two sides of the syrian conflict aren't getting along very well frankly just getting them in the same building may already be considered a diplomatic breakthrough not to mention the talks which are scheduled to continue on friday you go if it's going off r t montreaux switzerland will stay in touch with developments at the peace talks is brings you in-depth coverage from geneva. switzerland to bring you another key global event that's underway then as business and political leaders address the well the economic forum in davos and muslim

iran's president rouhani who's pledged cooperation with his neighbors and the rest of the world the details on that out of the stories coming up shortly. as the media leave us so we leave the people. of the scene bush is secure. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics.

been getting an increasing number of death threats and is expected to ask russian authorities to help protect him as whereabouts here in russia are kept secrets marina portnoy has details of the. for the former n.s.a. contractor. despite his temporary residency in russia it's fair to assume that n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden follows what's reported about him throughout the world however it's the recent death threats rather descriptive ones published in the us

media that is causing the thirty year old to request extra security and protection from russian law enforcement the website buzz feed quoted an anonymous u.s. intelligence officer describing how he would have assassinated snowden if he had the chance another unnamed pentagon official has been quoted saying he would have simply love to put a bullet in snowden's head or he not restricted from killing an american snowden's lawyer says the former contractor is constantly accompanied by private guards but that may no longer be enough to ensure his security. we clearly understand that there is a serious danger for the life and health of edward snowden and n.s.a. intelligence officer says that it's easy to imagine a situation where he walks around moscow for example after doing his groceries and

he accidentally bumps into someone then he suddenly feels drunk goes home and dies in the shower in his situation he has to think about his security snowden's attorneys stresses that according to russian law a death threat carries criminal liability he also says the former contractor's refugee status makes him only entitled to ask the police for help in the meantime a new poll by pew research shows that while americans are still divided over the benefits of snowden's n.s.a. leaks when it comes to just young americans ages eighteen to twenty nine years old the majority believe that snowden's leaks served the public's interest reporting from new york. r.t. . a family dinner date for tony blair the former prime minister served with all the food and wine in a bomb and try to conduct a citizen's arrest to make him face justice over the invasion of iraq had to come

to see how that worked out. plus details on one of the tories hackers suspected of breaking into the computers of george w. bush and his secretary of state has reportedly been caught by remain in police details on that story plenty of others just a few clicks away on r.t. dot com. iran says it's ready to engage with neighboring countries and world powers president rouhani has pledged came at the world economic forum in davos. is that. he is taking full advantage of the president of the country has all of the devil's economic forum because it's incredibly timely for him we know that the six month interim deal struck between the six major powers has taken effect this week and the message from him is is open for business and i say it's certainly timely because in the audience you've got two hundred fifty people the participants are

some of the richest people in the of the eighty billionaires hey we've got forty heads of state so he's speaking to the right people and it's the first time in twenty years an iranian leader has come to this of that and said he is basically opening up the country to international investment he's worried the likes of any tell you tell shell as well as exxon mobil throughout the day he wants to really drum up support for the oil industry that has been really suffering in the last two years because as they sanctions which will now be partially lifted thanks that interim deal that has been struck now he's got great expectations for his economy let's listen to the man himself. iran's economy has the potential to be among the world's top ten in the next three decades that's our long term goal which we're planning to achieve through our social economic as well as domestic and foreign policy also my government is pursuing ideals and economic development democracy and

the improvement of iran's foreign relations and that's impossible without our international engagement now considering a run has one of the biggest if not the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world that is a feasible a goal for the country in a way relationships between iran and the west are now warming up thanks the sanctions being partially lifted and investors are keen to get involved as well. the jailed business partner of the former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky has been granted an early release by russia's supremes court platon lebedev libertad has been due to walk free in may but will now do so in just a matter of hours artie's has this report. waiting for the official papers from the supreme court to visit liberals to the prison where he has been serving his sentence this supreme court has found that it is illegal for early release and. moment. also the time that

it has spent in prison in two thousand and four and two thousand and five before he was actually sentenced for the first. was actually illegal and that was sort of a victory for pot only to be however on top of all of this the supreme court has actually. paid seventeen billion rubles that's about five hundred million dollars reimbursement for the taxes that he hasn't paid this is exactly what he said he does not intend to do because. he is innocent of that and that is also precisely the reason why we probably will not be seeing the former oil tycoon coming back to russia any time soon because the charges seven hundred billion rubles was the reason why he said he is not going to come back to russia and will indeed stay abroad in berlin or switzerland where he went to after

being released at the end of december on presidential pardon. world news for you know from or to international in the world update most motorcycles have killed five policemen and wounded two others in egypt it happened to the checkpoint. from the scene over two hundred fifty security personnel have been killed since the military toppled is mr president mohamed morsi last july. a fresh rally in thailand capitalising thousands of people to. the state of emergency in force under a sixty day decree and maintaining law and order until election. that the government resigns no. work at stake. ministries bringing central bank called to a standstill. and it's free to walk out of the pentagon in the united states the generals through its cleaning catering staff who say they're fed up with low salaries the strike president obama has put an end to poor pay for contract

employees at federal facilities some of paid less than nine dollars an hour around forty percent list them such as say is a basic living wage in the area. and finally in a while the. government in such a cease fire deal with rebels off the talks in the ethiopian capital addis ababa of a deal that must end within twenty four hours last week government forces regain control of the two key cities that have been held by insurgent agreement comes after months of brutal flourishing which started as a dispute between the president and his former deputy and snowballed into large scale. but to bring it up they've got with the news team with just over half an hour from now in the meantime disturbing allegations about don't break their primary oath of caring for the sick instead of get involved in. the break.

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after seven years in prison. was finally released eric montell though kept his promise to be in kabul when the young man arrived and smothered couldn't even recognize him because he had physically changed so much because he was just a boy and he apparently had a certain shape to the back of his head from either a fall or whatever and she. was in total disbelief until she felt the shape of his head and then at that point she collapsed on the floor. in the case of involvement of health professionals when does it rise to the level of national scandal. how

many more revelations about physician involvement about research about approval of interrogations from people who are clearly injured to be injured again. how much more. the american public does not hear much about dr involvement in detainee abuse since the abu ghraib scandal both administrations have gone to great lengths to present detainee treatment as humane. we are going to not and i am. right now we're going to treat them mainly. reacted or certainly. the press is giving tours of modern medical facilities in guantanamo and army psychologist who report on the condition of detainees make no mention of symptoms of trauma. diagnosis we see are the same ones we see in the state of maine or.